The Palace of Forgetting

Economics is spreading its investigation to culture and psychology. Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution calls "delusion" the secret to a good marriage. This genially flip description is not fair nor accurate in weighting the importance of this information.

Framing is crucial to our neurological, ethical, and practical evaluation of events. Re-framing is something that coaches and other sensible consultants know will neutralize or transform even bitterly troublesome events nagging in the memory. And thus affecting the future.

Accomplished rather technically, it is an invaluable secret to healthy forgiveness and perspective, demonstrated in a political context by Jay Rosen's description of the time-frame for reporting news events. It is as simple as this. Anyone who wants to know exactly how this is done can e-mail The Chez at good (underscore) and (underscore) happy "at" yahoo-dot-com.

Life is too short to be preoccupied with detritus orbiting the mind.